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On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:17, Chris Meadors wrote: > Then I cpio'd up the > tree, gzip'd it, and put it where I told grub to find it: > "initrd (hd0,0)/boot/test/initramfs.cpio.gz" Did you use a newc-format cpio archive? Sounds like yes, but I want to be sure. > When I boot the kernel associated with that initrd line, it says that it > found a compressed image at block 0. But then panics saying it can't > mount the root filesystem. You need a patch to force the kernel not to bother trying to mount a root filesystem. This has been floating around for a while somewhere. If you don't use this patch, the kernel won't fall through to initramfs and panics instead, as you are seeing. Ooh, I see that Olaf Hering has a recent variant of this patch which is in -aa kernels. Andrew, can you consider dropping this into -mc or -mm, please? It won't break normal operation, but will relieve the pain of the not-yet-battle-scarred. It's less fugly than the earlier dev=0:0 patch. Maybe. http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.6/2.6.5-rc3-aa1/initramfs-search-for-init <b - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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